Just Beverley - Latest Issue - Flipbook - Page 30
Four Generations,
Giving Over 125 Years Service
Herbert
1870-1962
Eardley
1908-1986
Geoffrey
1939-2015
David
1964
Countryside Matters
with Sam Walton:
A look back to the
future
I have been lucky in how much I was able to work with Shire horses
before the appearance of tractors.
The first tractors I remember were the Case models, those which came over
from America during the war. Then in the late forties and early fifties, there
was the introduction of the little Grey Ferguson, David Brown various Ford
models, the PopPop Field Marshall and of course Nuffield.
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During this period
hydraulics were
introduced to
machinery, which
in itself was a
revolution. Farm
machinery was
then able to have
mounted implements
such as ploughs and
harrows, corn drills,
mowing machines
and buck rakes.
Introducing hydraulics to machines allowed them to perform similar actions
to those of a horse sweep for gathering up hay.
Being located on the back of the tractor had many benefits, such as allowing
the tractor to reverse along a cut swathe of cut grass to get a load of grass
on board and to carry back to a silage clamp. At the clamp, they would then
drop the grass off and either go up and out at the other end of the clamp,
or reverse up with the load to dump it down. Either way meant they also
compacted the grass to make it airtight in the clamp, essential to make good
quality silage.
Having a hydraulically operated
muck loader did away with
having to load horse carts by
hand when cleaning out cattle
yards. Not long afterwards
came the introduction of
mounted sprayers for weed
control and so farming moved
into a new era.
Binders disappeared gradually
as combine harvesters
appeared, firstly for bagging
up cereals, which were then taken back to the farm and stored in a granary.
The combines had bulk tanks on them to hold the grain, which was then
discharged out of that tank straight into a tipping trailer (a benefit of
hydraulics) and was then taken back to the farm.
A number of farms or those farmers who looked to the future had installed
a corn drier with a
reception pit for the
grain, which was then
elevated into the drier
itself. The farmers now
required either silos into
which to store the grain,
or buildings where the
grain could be stored on
the floor.
Some farms actually had
buildings with drying
facilities where warm, dry air was blown through a series of ducts on the
floor, but all this took time and did not happen overnight. This style of farming
took a while to change over completely.
With all the investment and looking to the future instead of having one man
per 100 acres, it became possible with the modern machinery and a bit of
casual help at harvest, to have one man for almost 1,000 acres! Progress.
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